St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-19
CONGRESSMAN RICE
Will Leave for Washington Soon
After Thanksgiving.

''There are too many members OF my
family who would object if l left home
before Thanksgiving day." said Repre-
sentative Edmund Rice yesterday after
noon, land consequently shall not go
to Washington before the 9th or the
2Sth instant at the furtheSt. | have no
fear but that | shall have enough to at
tend to after | reach there, for my dis
trict embraces population of upwards
of 100000, and their interests are numer-
Gus, as well as varied. While
at Washington l shall occupy
the house owned by Hon. John
B. Alley, of Massachusetts, at
the corner of Fifteenth and X streets,
facing Mcpherson square, within two
blocks of the White house and the up
town departments. Considerable of my
work will require my presence at the
departments and hence | esteem my
self fortunate in securing such an eligi-
bly, situated residence"
''AS to the needs of ST. Paul, to begin
with there is an urgent necessity for
hew pOStOffice building to be devoted
exclusively to the distribution
and collection of mail matter.
the present building ON Wabasha street
is entirely inadequate for the uses to
which it is now put, and the proposition
of the city of st. Paul to donate the site
now occupied by the city hall If the gov
eminent will put a poStOtfice building
upon it impreSSeS HE as being pretty
far one. This would give frontage
OH Rice park. and, besides. would only
necessitate the removal of the office
one block from its present situation.
Then there is the river and its improve
ment from the Fails of st. Anthony
down, for river and harbor bill embOdy-
ing the main features of the measure
that failed to receive the presidents
signature last congress, will be pre-
scented in the fftieth congress. Ample
time will be afforded the president to
examine into Its provisions. One
thing that l shall earnestly adyo-
cate and support will be the pushing
ahead to completion the
sAULT STE. MARIE CANAL 49,
as speedily as possible, for Gov
eminent money cannot be bet
ter expended than for such a purpose.
president Cleveland's recent visit to
the Northwest has shown him the eX-
tent and needs of this part of the cOun-
try, and it cannot but rebound to cur
benefit. Heretofore the trouble with
our public men has been that they have
not travelled enough to become ac-
quainted with the people and the cOun-
try west of Chicago, but this is all
changed now.
And that brings me down to sub
ject that | consider of great Importance,
namely, the development of the West
by means of the railroads, about which
SO much cutlery has recently been made.
To-day there is no frontier, and
this was accomplished mainly because
of the grants Of land made by the United
States to facilitate the building of these
roads. This was shown i'll the recent
Crow troubles where, in few hours,
owing to the facilities for transporting
troops, they were enabled to be on the
scene, whereas if the railroads had not
existed long and bloody war might
have been the result and caused an al
most endless expenditure of money.
The development of the West to-day is
due to these railroads, and while do
not believe in encouraging fraud in any
manner, shape or form, am opposed to
the policy of violating land grants made
to them i'll times when their aid was
needed"